When she was a teen, Theresa Criss, her parents, and a handful of other African-American children and their parents went together to a then all-white high school in Denison. Their goal: to register the children to attend the school.
“I can remember the other students looking at us like we were a spectacle,” Criss, who’s now in her 60s, recalled recently. Just as her parents had warned her, the school officials refused to register Criss and the others because of their skin color. A few months later, the Denison schools superintendant would testify in federal court that the lack of “incidents” served to “vindicate” the district’s policy of integrating schools only one grade level at a time, starting with the first grade.
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